Legging.



PATENTED MAR. '19-, 1907.

F. J. STEWART. I

LEGGING.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18.1906.

Qibwsses FLOYD J. STEWART, OF GRINNELL, IOWA.

LEGGING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 19, 1907.

Application filed June 18,1906. Serial No. 822,640.

To II/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FLOYD J. STEWART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grin nell, in the county of Poweshiek and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Legging, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a legging of simple, durable, and inexpensive construction that may be readily, quickly, and easily secured to the wearers leg in a tightly-fitting condition and there securely held and which also may be detached therefrom quickly and easily. I

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the legging fastening devices, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a legging embodying my improvements and in a closed position. Fig. 2 shows a similar view with the fastening devices in a partially-opened position, and Fig. 3 shows an enlarged sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 have used the reference-numeral to indicate the body portion of a legging. This is preferably made of canvas, leather, or other flexible material and is shaped to fit the wearers legs and is provided with overlapping edges at one side.

The fastening devices comprise three hooks 11 of the kind ordinarily used on shoes for fastening shoe-laces, which hooks are secured near'the edge of the under layer of the leggingbody. Adjacent to the upper and lower ones of said hooks and spaced apart from said hooks in a direction away from the adjacent edge of the legging-body are the latches 12, provided with the curved spring-levers 13, which are normally held by spring-pressure in their closed positions overlapping body portions of the latches. These devices are of the kind ordinarily used in connection with the class of overshoes known as arctics. On the other edge of the legging-body portion I have secured a fastening member consisting of two straight parallel rods 14 and 15, connected at their ends by the parts 16 and held spaced apart from each other. The rod 14 is pivotally mounted under a flap 18, formed at the edge of the outer overlapping legging-body portion, and both of said rods extend from a point near the top of the legging-body to -a point near the ankle portion of the legging-body. I have also formed in the material of the legging-body portion two eyelets 19, adjacent to the ends of the rod 14, which eyelets are designed to receive springlevers 13 of the latches.

Near the bottom of the ging-body is a slotted plate the underlying a latch device 21,designed to enter the slots of the plate 20, thereby providing an adjustable fastening device for this part of the legging. An instep-strap 22 is fixed at its ends to opposite sides of the body portion of the legging-body to pass under the wearers shoe and retain the legging against upward movement.

In practical use, and assuming that the user desires to place a legging in position, he first places the toe of his shoe between the instep-strap 20 and bottom of the legging-body and then wraps the leggingbody around his leg. He then grasps the rod of the fastening device and places it in the hooks 11. This may easily be done without stretching the He then grasps the overlapping leg- 20, and fixed to portion of the legging-body is legging-body member. overlapping edge of the legging-body member and folds it over the underlying edge thereof far enough so that the spring-levers 13 of the latches 12 may enter the eyelets 19. Then the said spring'levers are turned down to position overlapping the latches, and thus firmly holding the wire rods 14 and 15 in position, as shown in Fig. 1. In this way the operator may easily secure the legging tightly around his leg, and this operation may be done very quickly and easily, and after the spring-latches are closed the legging is firmly held in this position. The lower portion of the logging may be adjustably secured by placing the spring-lever 21 through any one of the slots in the plate in the ordinary way. One of the points of material advantage about the rods 14 and 15 andv the hooks 11 is that the operator may easily place the rod 15 in said hooks and then may grasp the rod 14 and use the connecting ends thereof, 16, as levers fulcrumed in the hooks 11 for the purpose of tightly stretching the legging around his leg and bringing it to position where the spring-levers 13 may enter the eyelets 19. Furthermore, when the legging is in its closed position on a wearers leg all of the fastening devices are concealed except the end portions of the spring-levers 13 and the provided with a spr1ng-lever plate 21, and they lie flat against the latchplates, to which they are pivoted, so that there is no danger of stitks or lzrnsh or the like becoming caught in the fastening devices of the legging.

Havingthus described my invention, wh at I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is

1. The eomtination of a flexitle legginghody portion, a rod having arms thereon,

said arms projeeted toward one edge of the legging-body portion and pivot ally onneeted thereto, a hook near the other edge of the legging-hotly portion and a fastening devi: e seen-red to the leggingdtody portion ad ja ent to the hook to engage and hold the edge oi the legging-hodyportion to \vhieh the rod is pivoted.

2. The eomliination of a tlexii le legginghody portion, a rod l'iaving arms therein, said arms projected toward one edge of the legging-hodyportion and pivot allyt onnected thereto, a nnmlier of hooks seen ed near the other edge of the legging-hotly portion to engage said rod and a numher of fastening devie es secured to the legging-hotly portion lieyond the hooks to and hold the edge of the legging-body portion to which the rod is pivoted.

3. The combination of a legging-body portion having one edge overlapping the other at the side and means for detailiatly securing the overlapping edge to the other part of the legging, comprising a fastening member hinged to the overlapping edge and t apal;le

of swinging to a position projetting Leyond the overlapping edge or to a position against the inner face of the legging away from the overlapping edge, a hook adjaeent to the underlying edge and a fastening deviee on the underlying edge beyond the hook.

4. The combination of a leggingtody portion formed with an overlapping edge at one side, t'vvo substantially parallel rods spaced 1 g t i l ing edge in position (overing the said hooks and the said pivoted rod.

5. The (0111i matron oi a legging-hotly portion having an overlapping edge, two snhstantially parallel rods onnetted at their ends and spa ed apart, one of said rods pivotally seinred to the overlapping edge and said overlapping edge torined ith eyelets or openings adjaent to the pivoted rod on the side aivay ironi the edge, a nnniher ol hooks fixed ii an the underlying edge and a nunilrer ot lat h devi' es soured to the underlying edge leyond the hooks and, eaeh having a pivoted s ')ring--lever to enter the eyelets or openings oi the overlying edge and hold said overlying edge t lose to the underlying edge when the tree rod in said hooks.

(i. The onil ination of a legging-hody portion having an overlapping edge, two substantially parallel rods onnerted at their ends and spa ed apart, one oi said rods pivotally secured to the overlapping edge and said overlapping edge formed with eyelets or openings adjatent to the pivoted rod on the side away from the edge, a nuniher oi hooks lived near the ni'iderlying edge, a nuinlter ol' latth devites se nred to the underlying edge lieyond the hooks and eaah having a pivoted spring-lever to enter the eyelets or openings of the overlying edge and hold said overlying edge (lose to the underlying edge when the tree rod is in said hooks and an adjnstal le fastening devi e set nred to the edge portions of the legging l;-elo\v said rod.

FLOY D J. STIDlVAlt'l.

itnesses F. M. CARD, CHARLES \V. CLARK. 

